The settlement by HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC which was acquired by DaVita group in 2012 is believed to be the largest to date involving allegations that some Medicare Advantage plans exaggerate how sick their patients are to inflate government payments.

The legislation- released as Republicans are in danger of losing their majority in the house is seen as a last ditch effort by GOP lawmakers to convince American voters of the rewards of the new tax code.

Catrena Smith, the coding manager at Indianapolis-based KIWI-TEK would at an educational session during the AHIMA Convention & Exhibit in September, present updates on how fraud and abuse regulatory changes are impacting medical record coding in ambulatory care practices.

In some organizations, a coder can only process 1.5 encounters in an hour. But computer-assisted coding combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence can collect data, read the records for the coder and ensure that the appropriate codes are applied.

Two physicians have been sentenced to prison in separate healthcare fraud schemes headlines this week’s health news. Meanwhile, FDA makes new rules to curb e-cigarettes usage by teens and more than 40healthcare organizations partner to improve diagnostics

According to the poll results, protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. On a party-identification basis, this sentiment is shared across a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans.

Technical debt is a critically important issue that when ignored, could lead to harsh consequences such as inefficient systems, costly and laborious maintenance cycles, and, in the worst case scenarios, the inability to migrate to modern system platforms.

A roundup of health related news: Healthcare venture between JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon to disclose new CEO in two weeks make headlines. In other news, prominent health systems to partner in order to enhance precision oncology

According to a recent survey carried out by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Episcopal health foundation, majority of Texans are of the opinion that the state government should have a "major role" in making health systems work.

The U.S. government ban on the use of Kaspersky software on federal systems continues after claims were made it had ties with the Russian Government. The European Parliament has followed the trail of the U.S Government by temporarily suspending its project with software vendor and branding its product “malicious”

Robert Tennant, the director of health information technology policy at MGMA says health insurers are not complying with the HIPAA transaction rules, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs to become more aggressive in its enforcement.

Politics are unlikely to be excluded from the long-awaited VA reforms as they await the bill being signed into law by President Trump. There are still reimbursement concerns by care providers under the proposed bill